On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
I'm looking for an external USB disk >= 500 GB to be used with both Linux and M$ for backups. Are there any good sites to check out, or any known compatibility issues like the freeagent problem? My google-foo isn't working well today.
Are you worried about the hardware? integrated encryption? or the backup software that often comes with an external drive? I just use externals for basic external storage and I've never had a problem. And I've had dozens of different manufacturers external USB drives hooked up to my systems. USB seems very vanilla and not to require tweaks for different manufacturers. My first hand experience primarily tops out at 1 TB, but I can't see why there would be an issue all the way to 2 TB. But 2 TB is a natural limit of some kind, so drives bigger than that may be problematic for a while. I haven't seen any reports about them yet. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org